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„An unflinching gaze into the heart of pure evil and a perverse genre entertainment par excellence, Kim Jee-woon's I Saw the Devil takes the serial-killer thriller as far into the realm of pulse-pounding mayhem as it has ever gone.“

„On any number of levels, Devil is troublesome at best, offensive at worst. Yet again women have no role to play other than being brutalized and the film loses sight of its point in order to wallow in its lurid violence. The idea that exacting revenge does nothing to bring closure and only results in more misery falling by the wayside early on. The world as drawn by Kim and co. comprises sociopaths and psychopaths – including the "hero" and nothing in between.“

„Visually striking and artfully staged, the film boasts impressive set pieces and black-hearted physical humor. More than once, for example, a severed head rolls or spins into place with the grace and timing of a ballerina. And for those people who don’t think a severed head is ever funny? They should not see The Devil.“

„After a while, the sheer length and repetitiousness of the film begins to feel pornographic in the dullest sense. Each episode of catch-and-release allows for new kinds of bodily harm to come to the cop and killer who are engaged in what begins to feel like a purgatorial reality game show, South Korea’s Biggest Psycho.“